November 20, 1903 Friday

November 20 FridayIsabel Lyon and her mother Georgiana Lyon arrived in Florence and were met at the train station by Jean Clemens, “wearing an incongruous lorgnette” (eyeglasses mounted on a handle: an oxymoron!) [Trombley MTOW 29]. Note: Lyon’s trip had been delayed by needed treatments for a bad eye.

Sam’s notebook: “Coat-of-arms: / Pirate. Admiral? Headsman (with great sword—‘knight?’ No. / Makes me blush at every inquiry concerning my coat (was going to place it opp. Würtemburg’s, on our great gate. Lot more criminals & bar sinisters—in his & mine” [NB 46 TS 30]. Note: Sam often left off a closing parenthesis.

Ladies’ Home Journal, p. 1 ran “Mark Twain’s Pictures” with Sam commenting on John T. Lewis and on a porcelain cat [Budd, “Supplement” ALR 16.1 (Spring 1983) 72]. Budd’s no. 191a. Note: pictures by the Boston photographer Thomas E. Marr.

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.   

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